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Washington Post:
Attempt to Pick Successor Is Foiled — Blunt Temporarily Takes Reins as Conservatives Reject Dreier — As the legal troubles mounted for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in recent weeks, he and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert talked repeatedly to craft a detailed strategy for the Republican leadership …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Troubled Year Gets Worse for the GOP — Bad news often comes in bunches, but for a Republican Party that not long ago looked ahead to an unfettered period of growth and expansion, yesterday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) represented one of the most significant blows …
American Spectator:
Post A Comment Below — Name: — Blog: — If temporarily deposed House Republican Leader Tom DeLay didn't like "Operation Offset" and its creators at the Republican Study Committee, led by Rep. Mike Pence, he surely hates it now. — That's because Pence and his budget-cutting plan …
Terry M. Neal / Washington Post:
GOP Ignores Lessons of Democrats' Past Mistakes — In response to the criminal charges he now faces, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has offered up the time-honored defense of Washington politicians: My enemies are out to get me. — In a Capitol Hill news conference, DeLay lashed out …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
DeLay Indicted By Partisan DA — A Travis County, Texas grand jury indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on a single charge of conspiracy to violate state campaign-finance laws earlier today, a long-awaited result of a years-long investigation by Travis County DA Ronnie Earle.
Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
Now We Know — Now we know where most Republicans stand, including the White House and the NRCC. They care about nothing but money and power. It's not complicated. — trevino at RedState spares himself this self-condemnation: … Plenty of links in there that I didn't take.
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Blunt Hired Consultant Who's Also Indicted — WASHINGTON - The political committee of Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record), who is temporarily replacing Rep. Tom DeLay as House majority leader, has paid roughly $88,000 in fees since 2003 to a consultant under indictment in Texas with DeLay, according to federal records.
Krempasky / RedState.org:DeLay Statement on Indictment
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Newsweek:
The 'Second' Man — The slain Abu Azzam may not have been Zarqawi's top deputy after all. Will his death have any effect on the Iraq insurgency? — Sept. 28, 2005 - U.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist …
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Scott Shields / MyDD:
Media Finally Sees Through Bush's 'Number 2 Man' Myth — Ever notice how many times the Bush administration and the Pentagon tout the killing or capture of high level al Qaeda operatives? Just how many 'Number 2,' 'Number 3,' and 'Number 4' men can bin Laden and Zarqawi possibly have, anyway?
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Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Museum Dropped From WTC Site for Now — NEW YORK — Bowing to pressure from furious Sept. 11 families, Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday removed a proposed freedom center from the space reserved for it near the planned World Trade Center memorial, saying the museum project had aroused "too much opposition, too much controversy."
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New York Times:
Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25 - After the storm came the siege. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, gripped New Orleans. The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations …
Associated Press:
Bush narrows Supreme Court list — Judges, lawyers being considered, analysts say — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, nearing the end of his search for a successor to retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has whittled his list to a handful of candidates and could announce his decision by week's end.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Turks Challenge Hughes on Iraq — Envoy Faces Angry Audience of Women's Rights Activists — ISTANBUL, Sept. 28 — A group of Turkish women's rights activists confronted Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes on Wednesday with emotional and heated complaints about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq …
The Poor Man Institute:
Republican whining about DeLay/Frist - early returns — The DeLay indictment/Frist investigation news seems to have caught the jingosphere largely off-guard, which says pretty much all that needs to be said about their grasp of Washington reality. … Not so out-of touch that they'll actually defend him …
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Barry Moody / Reuters:
Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq — LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Why can't the Democrats capitalize? — With the White House on the ropes after Katrina, Dems waffle and wheeze — WASHINGTON - With George W. Bush's presidency mired in the muck of hurricanes and doubts about the war, you'd think Democrats would be bursting with energy, eagerly expecting to regain power.
